1COURSE INFORMATIONADMINISTRATIVE LAW AND POLICY IMPLEMENTATION

PA 534 EMPA SUMMER 2012PROFESSOR PHILLIP J. COOPER

OFFICE HOURS: To Be Discussed in ClassPhone (503) 725-8155e-mail pcooper@pdx.edu WWW Site http://web.pdx.edu/~pcooper

TEXTS: *Phillip Cooper, Public Law and Public Administration, Fourth Edition (Wadsworth/Thomson, cloth)

*Cooper, Cases on Public Law and Public Administration, (Wadsworth/Thomson, paper)

You may be asked to access some items via LEXIS/NEXIS using the PSU Library website as well as other items via the Internet

*Royalties for new copies of these books will be donated to the Hatfield School. I do not receive any royalties for used books.

GRADING: Judicial Opinion Paper 35%Case Memo 10%Practice Paper 35%Legal Research Assignment 10%Informed Class participation 10%

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Please note that all assignments are required. Failure to complete or submit any of them will result in a failing grade for the course.

IMPORTANT DATES: Legal Research Assignment Due August 18Case Memo Due September 8Practice Paper Due September 29

Judicial Opinion Paper Due October 6

You will be given detailed instructions regarding the written assignments later in this syllabus and in class. Students are expected to participate in class discussions and will be held responsible for all instructions and materials presented in class whether they are present or not. The class participation grade is for constructive and informed participation which means that one shows clear evidence of attention to the reading materials and handouts assigned in the course and not simply reflection or general commentary. All assignments are required. None are optional. Failure to submit any of these items will result in a failing grade for the course.

This course proceeds from the assumption that the members of the class have no background in the study of law or politics. Even so, if you find that you are having difficulty with the material, please contact me for help as soon as possible. Please do not wait until the end of the course if you need help!

In accordance with the policy of the Portland State University, and my own wishes to ensure your opportunities for success in this course, any student in this course who has a disability that may prevent him or her from fully demonstrating his or her abilities should take the appropriate steps with the university and contact me personally as soon as possible so that we can discuss accommodations necessary to ensure full participation and facilitate educational opportunity. Be sure to meet with the support people at the Disability Resource Center to ensure that appropriate documentation and processes are put in place to assist both your instructors and you.

COMMUNICATIONS

The dramatic expansion in e-mail, the growing importance and pervasiveness of smart phones, and the increasing range of other personal information management devices have been important and helpful developments in our modern world. However, they have also created a host of communications issues. Please be clear about the following policies as we work together. They have been developed over time and with a great deal of experience.

When writing e-mails, please use normal syntax, proper capitalization and punctuation, and avoid e-speak (the shorthand used by many in blogs, text messages, and tweets). The dangers of communication difficulties on e-mail are already well known and have only been exacerbated by the informal behaviors on social networking sites, text messages, and tweets. Our communication will be formal and professional.

Avoid controversial e-mail messages. It you have a difference of opinion, discuss it in person or, if that is not possible, by telephone. Confrontational behavior or harsh or edgy language in e-mails is to be avoided and can engender serious consequences. Edgy is not smart. It is just crude, and crude behavior is unacceptable. There is a tendency these days, and particularly with e-mail, to say things in ways one would not say them in face-to-face conversation and even to use excessively sharp or harsh language. Related to those problems is a tendency to become overly familiar and sometimes simply unprofessional. There is often a sense of a kind of impersonal communication or an assumption of anonymity when people sit down at a computer that seems to lead to a relaxation of inhibitions. This problem seems to have become even worse for those addicted to text-messaging. All of these tendencies lead people who are otherwise very controlled and careful to sit down at the keyboard or pull out a smart phone, dash off intemperate or disrespectful e-mail messages, and hit the send button before they have thought the matter through. E-mail is not anonymous or even secure and text messages are often even less secure. In addition, messages can be forwarded to many people very quickly and records are kept of them in a variety of places, from the recipient’s computer to the backup systems of the Internet Service Provider (ISP). They are legally discoverable and efforts to

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destroy them to cover one’s tracks are in some circumstances illegal. Anyone with legal training will simply not respond to those kinds of e-mails, and it is not the case that refusing to reply means anything except perhaps that the person on the other end knows better. In any event, professionalism and respect are as essential in e-mail as they are anywhere else. One is as responsible for what one says on e-mail as in any other context and, given the troublesome tendencies described above, it is a good idea to avoid reading or sending e-mail when one is excessively fatigued or when feeling upset.

Additionally, in the “e”-era, there is a danger that we assume that everyone is online and ready to respond when we hit the send key. That just is not possible a good deal of the time even with conscientious efforts to be a good communicator. Please be aware that I do not access e-mail from 4 pm on Friday until 9 am on Monday morning. That time is consumed with scholarship, class preparations, and, yes, even some time with my wife. I also do not access e-mail after 5 pm on other days. If you do send e-mails in the evening, please be aware that they will not be read and no response will be provided until the next business day at the earliest. Of course, the fact that one sends an e-mail with a question does not alter the obligation to submit assignments on time, whether the e-mail is answered or not.

I will do my best to communicate with you in a timely manner, but please understand that I cannot be on e-mail and the telephone all day even when I am in the office. I cannot see students, grade papers, complete class preparations, accomplish university administrative requirements, do scholarship, and engage in community service while on e-mail or the telephone.

Finally, do not assume that I have received an e-mail because you sent one. There are numerous system problems in software and in Internet Service Providers (ISPs) that can mean that e-mails do not reach their intended destination or may not do so promptly. Some e-mail systems and filters have been known to strip attachments from messages that do get through. I will acknowledge e-mail when I receive it. If I have not responded to a message in a reasonable period of time, feel free to be in touch again, just to see whether your first message got lost along the way. By the way, it is useful to be sure to be a subject in the subject line and some kind of message, however brief, in the message block. If either of these is blank, security software often interprets the message as a threat or spam and blocks it.

Important information in this course will be distributed via e-mail. It is your responsibility to monitor your university e-mail account regularly to obtain these materials. If you wish to use a different e-mail address from the university account, it is your responsibility to update your information in the university system to reflect your current e-mail address. The program, instructors, and the university expect to be able to communicate important information to you via the address that is in your university information listing. So please take care to manage that information so that you get all of the e-mail that needs to find its way to you for this course and for university purposes generally. If for some reason you do not receive e-mail messages that I mention in class, it is your responsibility to inform me promptly so that we can correct whatever communications difficulties exist. By the way, if you change your e-mail address, please also make sure to update your address on the program listserv as well.

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The use of cell phones and text messaging devices is not permitted in class. Please make sure they are turned off before class begins. These devices are disruptive to the class and disrespectful to other students as well as to the professor. Some people seem to think that if they quietly look down to their phones, that their use is acceptable. It is not. As an instructor, let me assure that others in the class and I know what is happening and regard it as the same behaviour as using cell phones or pagers. It means that the person involved is not engaged in the class and not paying attention either to his or her colleagues or to the professor. It is, in simple terms, rude and disrespectful. If you must have a pager because you are on call for emergencies, please set it to vibrate, rather than ring. If you must make a cell phone call, please do so during breaks for before or after class. The same applies to checking messages.

While it is certainly acceptable to use laptop or tablet computers to take notes in class, it should go without saying that accessing e-mail or visiting websites in class, except during breaks is just as unacceptable as the use of cell phones or text messaging devices and just as discourteous and distracting to your colleagues. You might be surprised at how easy it is for an instructor to tell that this kind of behavior is taking place. If, in the opinion of the instructor someone is not paying attention to their colleagues’ contributions as well as to the instructor, that will be taken into consideration in one’s participation grade.

CLASS CONDUCT

We will be dealing with a host of controversial subjects throughout the term. It is important that we do so professionally and courteously with respect for everyone involved. Please understand that, like you, others in the class frequently come after a long work week and carrying a full load of personal and professional responsibilities. Please take a deep breath, settle back, and enjoy the discussions, but be alert to your classmates and engage with them as you expect that they will work with you. If there are difficulties, please see me, so that we may resolve any problems and prevent them from getting in the way of the work we have to do together.

Also, you are not authorized to post any materials from this class on a website and that includes social networking sites. We use a closed e-mail list to distribute materials in the course, but they are for the use of those enrolled in the course. All rights to all materials are reserved and may not be disseminated in any form without the instructor’s permission.

It is also not permissible to record classes. We cannot have useful discussions if those in the room must be concerned that what they say will be recorded. If you must miss class, see me and we can work through what you missed.

As you know if you have been taking courses on the intensive quarter system, classes go by rapidly. While it is true that professional travel or other clear justifiable reasons can create challenges, missing classes in this format can make it difficult to complete the work. (See the

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discussion of Incompletes later in the syllabus.)

This course, like others, is designed to have you acquire a significant portion of the material through your readings, but that is not enough by itself, particularly given the fact that there are new developments constantly. Neither is it an online class. By the same token, this is not a class in which students can receive acceptable grades simply by attending class. We use class time to work through concepts, processes, issues, and new developments that go beyond the reading itself. As you know, these classes go by quickly and there is never enough time to deal with everything that you’ve read in class. I will not generally take class time to go over the reading, though I will certainly answer questions that you have and may highlight certain aspects of the assigned readings. Evidence that you have read those assignments carefully will, however, be part of the grading of your work and assignments are designed to demonstrate that work.

SUBMITTING ASSIGNMENTS

All work done for this course is to be the product of a student’s own effort with proper academic attribution to sources. Any assignment submitted in this course that is not fully supported by appropriate references will not receive a passing grade. The assignments in this course are not group exercises, though such group activities are valuable and are used in many other seminars or courses in the EMPA program, the purposes of the assignments in this course are somewhat different.

In addition to these points, there is one other consideration to keep in mind. There is a tendency among some students to get together in person or electronically to discuss an assignment and that often leads to multiple and often inaccurate reinterpretations of the assignments. That process generally leads to confusion and needless anxiety on the part of those who thought they knew what they were doing, but are confused by cross-talk. It is also troublesome to professors who work diligently to provide clear and carefully developed assignments. While sharing ideas about the subject matter of a course can be a very useful activity, attempting to turn individual assignments into group discussion is not. Please direct any questions you have about an assignment to the instructor. If there is a problem, we can not only help you, but share the information with everyone directly and in a timely fashion.

Please make a backup copy of your papers before you submit them. I rarely lose a paper, but accidents and system problems do happen! Please submit your papers as e-mail attachments.

Please use standard fonts and margins in preparation of any course assignments. All work is to be double-spaced with normal margins (1 inch), indented paragraphs, standard fonts (12 point type), and justified left (not full justified). Do not use such techniques as modified margins, double-double spacing, extra spaces after paragraphs or before or after headings. blank portions of pages, extra large fonts, or unnecessary computer graphics. These devices do not make work appear more impressive. On the contrary, they often convey an unprofessional quality and suggest that the work lacks substance and seriousness. Concentrate on the substance. Also, as you know, since documents are often shared in the work setting,

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unnecessary formatting interferes with your colleagues’ or supervisor’s efforts to respond to your document or add changes. It also makes it difficult for me to type comments on your papers. In short do not use templates and strip out unnecessary formatting.

All of the above also means that you should transmit a document so that there will not be compatibility problems. I can handle MSWord or WordPerfect documents. If you are using anything else, save the document in Word form and then transmit it. Also, please do not send me links to Google docs or the like. Download the document into Word form and send it that way. Please do not use .pdfs. They take up a great deal of memory and I cannot type comments on them.

When you send papers via e-mail, please check to make sure you get a confirming message from me, indicating that I was able to read and download the file. Sometimes there are difficulties with software or system compatibility, though I can access both WordPerfect and MS Word documents. Frequently, I will receive a large number of such e-mail attachments on the day assignments are due, so please allow until noon the following day to receive a confirmation. If you have not heard from me by then, it is a good idea to check.

I have one other request and I apologize in advance for preaching to the choir, as the expression goes. Please keep your anti-virus and anti-spyware protection up to date and use security-sensitive computing practices. While I do my best to keep my machines clean, you can help all of us and yourself by observing a few simple cautions. First, download updates for your anti-virus software regularly. Second, keep current on patches and other operating system updates. That includes your Internet browser. Browsers have become a favorite hacker target since many users do not think that it is important to install the latest updates for them. (Some people are under the mistaken impression that their antivirus suite takes care of software updates and patches for them. It does not.) Third, do not open attachments unless you are expecting them and they are from people you know. Also, be aware that one of the most common vehicles for mal-ware these days comes in e-greeting cards or other types of shared materials that come as executable files. Fourth, do not send information in email or over the Internet that would make it easy for anyone to take control of your computer or steal your identity. I will never ask you for your Social Security number or your Student I.D. number via e-mail and please do not use either one when you submit any materials in the course. (I make this point because some students have a habit of including such information with their papers.) If you receive a request for sensitive information from anyone, pick up the phone and check its authenticity. Then I recommend that you deliver the appropriate materials only to authorized people in hard copy.

ACCESSING ASSIGNMENTS ON THE INTERNET

Most students are accustomed to accessing reading assignments or research materials on the Internet or through university library information systems. Further, one of your first assignment will familiarize you (or for some people, reacquaint you) with administrative law materials on the Internet and how to locate them. Even so, the following notes might be helpful.

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From time-to-time I will suggest that you take a look at materials I have posted on my website. Just go to http://web.pdx.edu/~pcooper and click on the relevant page. If you find that there is a difficulty with a link, please let me know. As you know, various Internet sites change URLs for various reasons. I maintain my own site, so I can usually find and fix the problem quickly.

You will be asked to access some judicial opinions or other items using the Internet in this course. Some of these materials are available via Lexis/Nexis which can be accessed through the university library site. As most of you know from your other courses, when you attempt to log on to the Lexis/Nexis Academic Universe page from the library home page, you will be asked for your university log-on name and password. Your legal research techniques assignment will explain in detail how to use Lexis/Nexis to obtain particular types of information.

PUBLIC LAW AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Despite all of the criticism of bureaucracy, pressures for deregulation, and expanding emphasis on contracting out, we continue to live in a society in which administrative agencies play central roles in nearly all aspects of our lives. As citizens of that society we are consumers of administrative decisions. As participants in the marketplace, business activity is shaped by administrative agencies at all levels, including, in this day and time, international bodies. As concerned citizens and participants in, or employees of, government we are, to one degree or another, producers of administrative decisions.

Even with the increased use of policy designs that emphasize economic incentives and market dynamics, these administrative agencies are still central to policy implementation as well playing a key role in reshaping existing policies and providing feedback that influence new policy development in the future. In fact, the increase in the use of contemporary governance models that involve not only a particular government agencies, but several different types of government units – from cities and counties to state agencies, to tribal governments, to units of state government and sometimes multiple states, as well as federal agencies – along with nonprofit organizations and for-profit firms in the making and implementation of important policy decisions has produced new and very complex questions of law as well as interesting management challenges.

We also live in a society which purports to rest for its legitimacy upon the concept of the rule and supremacy of law. Legal rights and duties, written constitutions at the national and state levels to protect them, and tribunals to decide controversies serve as guarantees of peaceful resolution of conflict, provide means for necessary change and flexibility in the social fabric, and protect the liberty and property of individuals and minority groups from the demands of the majority. On a slightly less abstract level, we are, as Alexis de Tocqueville observed, a century and a half ago, a litigious people.

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Our beliefs and our circumstances have combined to produce an environment that has many complex legal elements. Contemporary efforts aimed at changing the nature and function of administrative agencies and the way they are managed have increased, not decreased, that complexity. Public and private managers, nonprofit executives, and ordinary citizens must be aware of these legal concerns. As consumers of administration, our daily lives are heavily conditioned by courts, quasi-courts, laws, regulations, contracts, lawyers, and judges. It is the purpose of this course to investigate some of the major actors and themes that make up the legal environment of public administration from the perspective of producers and consumers of administrative action.

Learning Objective

By the end of the term, students should be able to identify and discuss the major legal concepts presented in class, frame arguments on administrative law matters within the accepted usages and procedures of the field, understand some of the relationships among courts, agencies, the legislature, and other actors in the policy process, and be literate in the law to some elementary degree as demonstrated by an example of basic legal research ability.

In addition to these more specific subject specific areas, this course should help you to: identify and apply legal and political theories and frameworks to the practice of public service leadership, management and policy; conceptualize, analyze, and develop creative and collaborative responses to important issues in public service leadership, management and policy; assess challenges and explore mechanisms to advance cross-sectoral and inter-jurisdictional cooperation in public programs and services; develop and practice analytic and written communication skills as a professional; and think critically and reason carefully about important issues in public policy and public service leadership, management, and policy.

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ADMINISTRATIVE LAW AND POLICY IMPLEMENTATIONCOURSE TOPICS AND ASSIGNMENTS

EMPA SUMMER 2012

Please start the quarter by remembering just how quickly the term passes. The wise course is to plan your reading and your writing assignments ahead and do not try to work from session to session.

While I will do my best to get your work back to you as quickly as I can – consistent with the careful attention that I give to each paper – you may not have your previous submissions back in hand before it is necessary for you to work on the next piece. Therefore, it is very important that you speak with me as soon as possible with any questions that you might have as you move along. Also, this subject matter involves cumulative learning, which means that if you do not understand critical concepts as the course progresses, the challenge will become greater as we move further along. Again, please be in touch sooner rather than later.

DATE TOPIC ASSIGNMENTAugust 18Session 1 FOUNDATIONS OF ADMINISTRATIVE JUSTICE

Part I Introduction: Defining the Field The Law in Books

Part II The Law in Action PLPA, Ch. 1-3 and App. 1 (This is appendix 1 of the Public Law and Public Administration text.)

Part III The Development of Administrative Justice PLPA, Ch. 4 Challenges of Policy Implementation Also, please read PLPA Chapter 5. We will not get through all of this material for

this on-campus session, but your next set of reading assignments is extensive and you will not want to wait to get into the material.

LEGAL RESEARCH TECHNIQUES ASSIGNMENT DUESeptember 8Session 2 THE BLACK LETTER LAW OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Part I Rules, Ordinances, & StatutesPLPA, Ch. 5 (cont’d)

Food and Drug Administration v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. Corp. Cases on PLPA**

Massachusetts v. EPA (Handout)

Part II Adjudication PLPA, Ch. 6

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Mathews v. Eldridge Cases on PLPA Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill Gilbert v. Homar

CASE MEMO DUE

Part III Judicial Review PLPA, Ch. 7 Natural Resources Defense Council v. NRC Cases on PLPA

Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. NRDC NOTE: The previous two opinions are from the same case, but from two

different levels of courts. The discussion among the judges is important. Motor Vehicle Manufacturers v. State Farm Mutual Chevron USA v. Natural Resources Defense Council

September 22Session 3 THE LAW AND POLITICS OF ADMINISTRATION

Part I The Informal Process & Administrative Discretion PLPA, Ch. 8, 9 Pay particular attention to the discussion of the ADR Act and the problems

presented by ADR actions discussed in the text.

Part II Law and Public Employees PLPA, Ch.11,12

Waters v. Churchill Cases on PLPA Garcetti v. Ceballos (Handout)

O’Connor v. Ortega Cases on PLPA

Part III The Challenge of Administrative PLPA, Ch. 13 Responsibility

Richardson v. McKnight Cases on PLPA 1Filarsky v. Delia (Handout)

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 29, 2012 PRACTICE PAPER DUE

SATURDAY OCTOBER 6, 2012 JUDICIAL OPINION PAPER DUE

*PLPA Public Law and Public Administration, Fourth Edition**Cases on PLPA Cases on Public Law and Public Administration

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ADMINISTRATIVE LAW AND POLICY IMPLEMENTATIONNOTES ON ASSIGNMENTS

You are asked to prepare four written assignments in this course. All assignments are required. None are optional. Failure to submit any of these items will result in a failing grade for the course.

1. Legal Research Techniques Exercise. There are a number of types of tools and techniques with which public managers need to become proficient. They become more important as one advances in a public service career. This assignment simply asks you to look up some sources and provide answers to a series of questions about those sources.2. Case Memo – This assignment asks you to provide a memorandum for a superior that analyzes a case that was decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. Further details will be provided on the assignment and the case itself. 3. Judicial Opinion – You will be assigned to write an opinion in a real case brought before the United States Supreme Court. You will be able to see the real world response later. Details of this assignment will be provided to you in class later. (NOTE: More information will be provided on this assignment in terms of the case that we will address and when and where briefs will be available. You will not be doing research about this and will want to get into the material in the course before you start working on it. So don’t be concerned at this point..)

The primary purposes of this exercise are three: (1) to analyze a real controversy of major importance to public managers; (2) to develop skills in the preparation of a fully developed set of arguments on both sides of a case; and (3) to develop skills in the use of precedents and other legal authorities. 4. Practice Paper – Toward the end of the course, you will be asked to prepare a memorandum in response to a situation in an organization which will provide an opportunity to apply what you have learned about administrative law principles and processes from the assigned readings and class sessions in a coherent fashion in an applied setting. The emphasis here will be on the readings, but also with attention to class lectures.

Grading Criteria

1. Please be aware that the first and most important criterion is that the work submitted meets the requirements of the assignment as presented. Course assignments are carefully designed to provide specific learning experiences and are integrated with classroom discussions and course readings to present an overall course design. 2. All work submitted in the course will be required to be fully supported by complete, specific, and appropriate citations to proper sources. Any paper submitted that is not fully documented, using complete, precise, and appropriate citations will not receive a passing grade. A handout will be provided in class which explains the techniques for and various uses of proper references, in addition to the obvious obligations for proper academic attribution of quotes or ideas taken from other sources. On this last point, see the statement on proper academic attribution in this syllabus. Please indicate on your assignments the style guide you are using. 3. The quality of writing is a significant factor in the evaluation of all work submitted in the

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course, just as it is the professional arena (whether anyone involved in the workplace says so or not). A handout will be provided on scholarly and professional writing. The standards that the handout outlines will be used in grading assignments.

NOTE: All assignments in this course come with a page limit. There are several reasons for this and they will be explained in class. However, you should know that one of the reasons is to encourage you to organize carefully and write clearly and succinctly. That said, if you find that you are preparing to submit a paper that is significantly shorter than the page limit, that is probably a good indication that you have underestimated the assignment. You have not been allowed more page space than is needed to accomplish the task presented to you.

Incomplete Grades

The grade of Incomplete is not a choice that a student makes. It is a grade that is recorded if the instructor determines that it is warranted by the circumstances under college and universities policies.

Students may elect to withdraw from a course under university rules which are, in fact, quite liberal. Efforts to withdraw after the date indicated in the schedule of classes require approval of a petition by the graduate office. That determination is not controlled by the course instructor.

It is not acceptable for a student who is having trouble in the course to come to the professor at or near the end of the quarter and simply decide that he or she wishes to take the course over, without a grade in the present term, because he or she is not doing or has not done adequate work to that point. If a student does not submit the assignments when they are due, but instead sends an e-mailing indicating that he or she wants an incomplete, no such grade will be entered and a failing grade will be recorded. Such an action is unfair to other students and to the instructor. If there is a proper reason for an incomplete, the student must be in touch with the instructor to explain the basis for the request, receive an approval for the incomplete, and reach an agreement on how the matter will be resolved before any relevant due dates. Any other action will result in a failing grade for the course.

Please note that Incomplete grades are not desirable, since they become a kind of albatross around the neck of students carrying them as well as for the faculty members who must get them graded while meeting other current demands. That is especially true in the EMPA program where you move from one course to the next so rapidly, with little time to catch up with previous work. You should also know that some forms of financial aid require a certain amount of progress toward the degree per term and incomplete grades may engender difficulties. It is your responsibility to be aware of any such requirements and to take the steps necessary to avoid problems.

Also, please be aware that, in any case, Incomplete grades must be cleared within one year of the term in which they were taken. After that, students can complete the work only after successfully petitioning the Graduate Council, and that body takes a strict view of the grounds

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STATEMENT ON ACADEMIC ATTRIBUTION

Naturally, students are expected to do their own work as provided by PSU policy. The vast majority do precisely that. However, because some students either do not understand the accepted rules of professional practice or because it is sometimes necessary to respond to a problem, this statement is provided. This way, everyone understands the concepts and rules.

Most students who have difficulties do not intend any dishonest action. They simply do not understand precisely those situations in which attribution of sources is required. In fact, for professionals working in public organizations, documents are often group projects rather than individually authored materials. A return to an academic setting is a bit different and requires some attention to the basic guidelines. Consider the following examples of unacceptable borrowing prepared by the Georgia State University Department of History based upon Burkhardt's Civilization and Renaissance in Italy.1

Text: “We must insist upon it as one of the chief propositions of this book, that it was not the revival of antiquity alone, but its union with the genius of the Italian people, which achieved the conquest of the western world.”

Unacceptable actions2:(a) Author's words [underlined] without quotations marks and footnote.

The Renaissance resulted not from the revival of antiquity alone, but from its union with the genius of the Italian people.

(b) Author’s words without quotation marks and with footnote:

The Renaissance resulted not from the revival of antiquity alone, but from its union with the genius of the Italian people. 1/

(c) Use of an idea or interpretation originated by the author without credit.

The Renaissance resulted from the combination of classical revival and Italian national Character.

Four of the most often encountered problems are covered by the following general guidelines.

1. A footnote at the end of a paragraph which is primarily or completely borrowed is not adequate attribution. When you borrow someone else's words, you must use both quotation

11Jacob Burkhardt, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, trans. by S.G.C. Middlemore, (London: Penguin, 1990).

22The examples of borrowing are taken from Department of History Memorandum, 11/12/74, Georgia State University

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marks and a reference note.

2. The act of rearranging words from someone else's prose does not change the fact that it is not the student's own work.

3. CAUTION! It is not acceptable to offer a quotation or a reference to a particular point and then provide just a general citation to a whole book or entire article. A general reference without page numbers is only acceptable when one is indicating sources that speak about a topic in general terms or when one refers to a point that is the overall thesis of a book or article. In all other cases, a complete citation is required, which includes page numbers. To do otherwise is to tell your readers that something is in a report, a book, or an article somewhere and it is their problem to find it. They will simply reject the reference and see your action as an indication that you do not understand the proper use of sources which will, in turn, undermine the credibility of your work.

4. A paper which consists of numerous quotations strung together does not qualify as one's own work. The fact that there are quotation marks and footnotes is not a substitute for the requirement that a piece of work turned in on an assignment is to be basically a product of the student's own mind.

These are some general suggestions to avoid the most common mistakes. Other examples of unacceptable practices are provided in the handout on the use of sources that will be provided to you. If you are not sure, ask!

Obviously, no one wants to run into a problem of plagiarism or any other type of academic integrity issue. Plagiarism is the “act of appropriating the literary composition of another, or parts or passages of his writings, or the ideas or language of the same and passing them off as the product of one's own mind.”3 If a student quotes someone, he or she is expected to use quotation marks. Paraphrased or borrowed ideas are to be identified by footnotes.4 Students with questions concerning the proper format for citations should consult a competent style manual.

Plagiarism and other forms of academic dishonesty (such as abuses of test-taking procedures) will result in the grade of “F” for the piece of work involved and may, if in the judgment of the instructor the particular case warrants it, result in the grade of “F” for the course and referral for university action.

The best protection against such problems is to start written assignments early and avoid that last minute pressure. The attempt to do the work the night before the assignment is due leads to a lack of time for thoughtful composition, writer’s block, lost references, and the temptation to use someone else’s work improperly.

33O'Rourke v. RKO Radio Pictures, 44 F.Supp. 480, 482 (DC Mass. 1942).

44The instructor must make the decision in each case as to the existence of borrowing.

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STUDENT INFORMATION16

NAME:_______________________________________________________

PHONE: ______________________________________________________

E-MAIL ADDRESS: ____________________________________________PLEASE PRINT CLEARLY AND CAREFULLY SO THAT I WILL NOT MISS ANY PART OF THE ADDRESS

PROGRAM: MPA, MA, MPA-HA, MPH, Ph.D. OTHER

Please note also your specialization if you have selected one.

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PREVIOUS LAW RELATED COURSES, IF ANY:_______________________

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PREVIOUS LEGAL EXPERIENCE, IF ANY:__________________________

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION.

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